We hold these truths to be self-evident…
July 4, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 7 Comments
I love America. Yes, I know that America is not perfect, that we have a boatload of problems, that rights for some Americans have been hard fought, that we have messed up on occasion throughout the world, and every other complaint you hear again and again. Still, I love America.
And the reason I love America [...]
Archbishop Demetrios’ Encyclical on the Fourth of July
July 1, 2009 by John Couretas · 6 Comments
July 4, 2009
Independence Day
To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the Youth, the Hellenic Organizations, and the entire Greek [...]
Wisdom from Samuel Adams
April 27, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 4 Comments
Thomas Sowell before the election
November 8, 2008 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Freedom-Loving Orthodoxy
July 4, 2008 by John Couretas · 23 Comments
In the May 2008 issue of The Word,* published by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Gregory Cook looks at the ways Orthodox Christianity may “transfigure” America. “Orthodoxy has always been open to building on what is true and extant in any nation or culture,” Cook writes. “America should be no different.”
*Also [...]
Independence Day
July 2, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Thoughts on freedom as we approach the celebration of another Independence Day:
From the beginning the Creator allowed human beings their freedom and a free will; they were bound only by the law of his commandment. St. Gregory the Theologian (Orations 14.25 ["On Caring for the Poor"], PG 35:892A)
Freedom means being one’s own master and ruling [...]
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